{"id":1422,"date":"2010-09-29T00:08:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T04:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2010-09-29T00:08:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T04:08:41","slug":"cataclysm-beta-build-13066","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/cataclysm-beta-build-13066\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataclysm Beta Build 13066"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new beta build, 13066, was released on the weekend. Here are the changes from the MMO-Champion<\/a> post that I believe affect holy paladins.<\/p>\n

Holy<\/p>\n

* Spiritual Focus no longer gives you hit based on your Spirit. Renamed to Paragon of Virtue – Reduces the cooldown of your Divine Protection by 10\/20 sec and the cooldown of your Avenging Wrath by 30\/60 sec.
\n* Enlightened Judgements now also grants hit rating equal to 50\/100% of any Spirit gained from items or effects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay, so hit is now dumped into Enlightened Judgements. We now have our range and our hit and we get some passive healing every time we judge. Okay.<\/p>\n

Paragon of Virtue is interesting. Avenging Wrath is only 3 minutes anyways, so being able to pop it every 2 or 2.5 minutes is… interesting. Also interesting — actually, you know, I’d go so far as to say nifty — is that it changes Divine Protection’s cooldown, which is currently one minute. 20% less damage for 10 seconds every minute is hot. 20% less damage for 10 seconds every 40-50 seconds is downright nifty. Especially considering the prot changes.<\/p>\n

Protection<\/p>\n

* Divine Shield’s Forbearance effect no longer affects Divine Protection.
\n* Hand of Protection’s Forbearance effect no longer affects Divine Protection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we can now pop Divine Protection without getting Forbearance on us, which means we can still bubble if something’s coming to get us. And I just tried it out — Avenging Wrath does not prevent you from bubbling and does not give you Forbearance. I was able to pop wings and bubble immediately thereafter.<\/p>\n

How, then, does this change what I found to be the ideal build?<\/p>\n

Not too darn much, actually.<\/p>\n

31\/5\/5<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s pretty much the same as the last build. I’m in favour of 2\/2 Enlightened Judgements. Not only does it give us our extra 5\/10 yards back, but it now also adds hit rating from our spirit AND gives us passive healing.<\/p>\n

If I could find a way to do it, I would sneak a point to grab 2\/2 Paragon of Virtue. But I don’t see where to steal the point.<\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more!<\/p>\n

MMO-Champion is reporting<\/a> that build 13082 is coming out to the PTRs and that there’s a change in the ret tree.<\/p>\n

Rule of Law no longer increases the critical effect chance of Holy Shock, affects Hammer of the Righteous instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, this was to be expected, really, if you’ve been reading blue posts.<\/p>\n

Ghostcrawler said on the 25th<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We’re going to try to get the 10 points Holy spends in other trees to be a little less cookie-cutterish. Options include making Divinity or Rule of Law not healing related.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there we have it. Rule of Law is not healing related except for the extra crit to Word of Glory. But as it is, Divinity is worth more than Rule of Law as it stands (extra crit to Holy Shock and Word of Glory) but now, that option has effectively been removed from us, at least in 13086.<\/p>\n

My question here is, how on earth does removing Rule of Law from our equation make things less cookie-cutter? We had some great discussion about where to put points and if Divinity is worth it or not and so if we chose not to pick up Divinity, we could grab Rule of Law. Now without Rule of Law, it’s literally a no-brainer.<\/p>\n

You go for 6% extra healing done to and by you. You go for 30% chance for your WoG not to consume holy power. You go for 20 extra yards on judgements. You go for 30% extra healing done by Holy Shock.<\/p>\n

What are your other options? Filling out Protector of the Innocent (which is horribly bugged at the moment, healing the target of your heal and mirroring that fully via beacon)? What about Denounce? Oh, wait, I know! Let’s get Arbiter of the Light. :P<\/p>\n

If they keep the change to Rule of Law AND change Divinity to not be healing-related, I’d fill out Paragon and get two points in Pursuit of Justice or Guardian’s Favor:<\/p>\n

32\/2\/7<\/a> or 32\/2\/7<\/a><\/p>\n

Honestly, I don’t know how removing our healing options gets rid of the cookie-cutter. Anyone out there able to explain it to me?<\/p>\n

In other beta news, I healed a regular Lost City today. It was fine. A quest was bugged in that we didn’t get credit for it, but I really do like this whole notion of questgivers right inside the instance entrance, much like Utgarde Pinnacle.<\/p>\n

That’s about all for now. More at some point later. I’m feeling pretty bewildered by all this at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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